Cato Networks vs Cloudflare
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Tel Aviv SASE pioneer (founded 2015, Check Point co-founder) at $300M+ ARR (Sep 2025) and $4.8B valuation (Series G Jun 2025); first acquisition Aim Security AI Sep 2025 competing with Palo Alto Prisma SASE and Zscaler.
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Cato Networks is a Tel Aviv, Israel-based SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) network security company — having raised over $1 billion in total funding including a Series G round in June 2025 at a $4.8 billion valuation — providing enterprises with a converged SD-WAN, network security (firewall, CASB, DLP, ZTNA), and XDR platform delivered as a cloud-native service from a global Points of Presence (PoPs) network. Founded in 2015 by CEO Shlomo Kramer (co-founder of Check Point Software, pioneer of the commercial firewall in 1993, and founder of Imperva in 2002) and President Gur Shatz (co-founder of Incapsula, cloud web application security), the company defined the SASE category before Gartner formally named it in 2019. Cato surpassed $250 million in ARR in 2024 (+46% year-over-year growth) and reached $300+ million ARR by September 2025, serving 3,500+ enterprises across 190 countries with 50,000 connected sites and 1.5 million remote users protected by zero trust network access (ZTNA). In September 2025, Cato completed its first acquisition — Aim Security — to expand AI security capabilities for enterprise AI agent adoption.
Global network platform securing 20% of internet traffic; $1.6B revenue growing 28%, expanding into AI inference infrastructure at 300+ edge locations.
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Cloudflare is a global cloud platform providing web performance, security, and network services to millions of websites and applications worldwide. Founded in 2009 by Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn and headquartered in San Francisco, Cloudflare started as a DDoS protection and CDN service and has evolved into one of the most comprehensive network infrastructure platforms, serving as the connectivity layer for nearly 20% of all internet traffic. The company went public in September 2019 at a valuation around $4.5 billion.
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